N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) - How I Use It & Some Major Benefits for My Friend

In today's video I'm going to talk to you about my personal experiences with this supplement right here which is N-Acetyl Cysteine. Some people call it NAC or NAC. NAC is a supplement that's used to help your body produce more glutathione which is the most important antioxidant in your body and it helps protect yourselves from damage. It's commonly taken to help support liver health, reduce inflammation, and protect against oxidative damage. NAC is also used to help treat conditions like asthma, bronchitis, and COPD. This supplement has been a real game changer for me and some of you might know that Amazon took it off their shelves and the FDA was trying to ban it. Thankfully that did not succeed and I hope nothing ever happens to it. I just want to share my experiences with this supplement and an experience of another person who I was very close with and this was maybe like seven years ago. So he was having really severe tics and he ended up getting diagnosed with Tourette's and I am more of the type of person to do like research and read about studies. He was also dealing with OCD like symptoms and other related problems which are super common with something like Tourette's. So I ended up doing research and I read something that was looking into using this as a treatment for OCD like symptoms. Since there are some real commonalities between OCD and Tourette's, I thought it would be worth looking into because he was desperate to get better at that time and up to 60% of TS sufferers also have OCD. NAC helps regulate glutamate in the brain and this is a very important neurotransmitter. Excess glutamate levels are associated with numerous mental health conditions including OCD. This paper is a systematic review of four clinical trials and five case reports which were analyzed. This was from 2015 and there are more studies since then. Some of the studies have found it to be quite effective and others not so much. For this paper, the study durations were an average of 12 weeks and the average dose per day was 2,400 to 3,000 milligrams of NAC. Results showed minimal adverse effects and a notable reduction in the severity of symptoms. With that said, more studies are needed. So I told him about it and he started taking it and noticed a great reduction in the tics like very quickly and the thing is there are no like magic pills so as much as that may have helped him at that period of time, it's not going to last forever like you got to have like a multi-pronged approach to health conditions in my opinion and my experiences. So he ended up having to like greatly change his diet and he ended up realizing certain things that were really contributing to causing the tics and like really basically they were triggers of the tics and they were dietary related so having something like this on hand was really really helping him when you're dealing with something that's such a severe condition because for some people Tourette's can be very severe, it can be mild, it can be very severe at times though depending on what's going on with your health. Now many years later he's doing so much better and he has very few symptoms of those things that he was dealing with back then which is that's pretty amazing. There's so much that you can do and I think it's sad sometimes because I've heard a lot of conversations, I've been around for a little while and I've heard people talk about certain things especially Tourette's where they think that you know I was diagnosed with this and it sucks and there's nothing you can do you just have it and people need to accept it and it's like don't give up there's so much that you might be able to do everybody's different like I said I'm not a doctor but you might be able to really make a change in your symptoms and what's going on because with what I've researched and with my friend what I've personally come to the conclusion is that like I said maybe not everybody but this person in particular having higher glutathione levels and detoxing the body that was the key for him to remain symptom free. So this is still being researched but in this one study 70 children with TS were compared with 36 healthy children. Extensive blood work revealed that children with TS had high levels of oxidative stress. They were also shown to have low zinc and higher ferritin levels. With the high oxidative stress implementing measures to address it seems like a good approach in trying to manage or lessen the symptoms. I just love that there are things that you can do yourself to try to improve your condition and different things you're dealing with because we all have our own like problems and health issues and stuff so I just wanted to share that now I'm going to share my own personal experiences. So whenever I'm sick I end up taking NAC daily a few times a day during that illness and I have noticed that I've gotten better a lot faster when I have this. So that's one benefit. Other than that like some people take supplements and they feel a change. I've never felt absolutely anything from this except that I've gotten better faster. It's the only thing I've noticed. Now besides that if I'm going to the doctor and I need to have an x-ray done which does happen has happened kind of a lot lately because I had surgery on my foot so I'm going to do an x-ray coming up soon again. I will end up taking this sometimes I'll take it a couple of days before. I will take this like I said if I remember I'll take it before otherwise I'll take it afterwards a few times a day maybe for a few days maybe for the week a couple of times a day something like that it's not a perfect science or anything but that's what I've done. Another time when I take this is if I take Tylenol for a headache. Now I'm very very careful with pain medicine ibuprofen or Tylenol. I personally don't take ibuprofen at all. I believe that one is hard on the kidneys and Tylenol is a bit worse for the liver I believe but with Tylenol I just try to very very rarely take it but if I do have the rare occasion where I have a pretty bad headache I will take a half of Tylenol maybe I'll end up taking another half that's like a big deal for me that's so much and then I'll end up taking NAC as well. I would say a few times that day and maybe one more time the next day because I'm just trying to clear that out of my system and I know that hospitals do use NAC in the hospital setting when somebody overdoses on you know Tylenol and I'm not sure if they use it for anything else but they definitely use it for that purpose. Before I finish up the video I just want to mention one last thing there are a couple of sales going on. Now some of you have been asking what supplements I'm taking in regards to NMN or NAD boosting supplements and I did take a break from them for a little while. I got curious because one of the first NAD boosting supplements that I took was NR and it was this right here by Thorne a combination product that they sell so I recently started taking this again and I'm going to do a video on it coming up. Now I wanted to let you know that there was recently a big price drop for this product right here. This really is the lowest price for NMN anywhere that I've seen and it is the Renew by Science 100 gram bulk pure NMN powder. It's a really big jar of it and now it's $99 plus I've got coupons you can use if you're interested. Now there's a really rare sale going on right now with Renew by Science and it is on their NAD complete as well as their NR which is liposomal and the sale is going to be going on for the next week. I'll give you some coupons down below. Lastly I've also been testing out this product this is the other brand that I do trust for NMN and it's Pro Health Longevity and I took this today it's just convenient you know in capsules and like I said I'll share more about this in an upcoming video. Lastly Vince he's from the channel My NMN Experiment he did an excellent video sharing the potential benefits of NAC and the studies behind them and I am going to link to that down below so please check that out next if you like. So I hope you enjoyed this video if you haven't subscribed yet please do that. Also I'm going to be making more short little videos like this about other supplements and my personal experiences so thank you guys for watching and take care.